Thoughts on Barney Frank, Rachel Dolezal and Graham Platner
Nobody asked me but…
In his day, the late Barney Frank was a national disgrace, a laughingstock, a punch line — even the ever-fawning Boston Globe demanded that he resign in 1989 after his sordid Hot Bottom rent boy scandal.
But as you look back, Barney was a giant, at least compared to the current failed crop of Massachusetts Congressmen.
I’d go down the list, but it’s too depressing.
I keep remembering Barney’s great one-liners — how he said that he wanted as an epitaph on his tombstone, “The Gentleman’s Time Has Expired.”
Another time he quipped of a Republican state rep from the North Shore: “He’s so dumb he’s the only human being I know in danger of contracting Dutch Elm Disease.”
Decades later, I ran into that rep and he asked me to autograph one of my books for him. I asked the solon how he wanted it inscribed and he replied with a smile:
“Just call me Dutch.”
Name me one memorable line — just one! — that any of the current Congressional delegation has ever said.
In other news:
Sen. Susan Collins is supported by Mainers.
Nazi tattoo boy Graham Platner is supported by maniacs.
One thing the Ch. 25 expose on OT abuse at MassDOT proved once again:
There is zero oversight on waste, fraud and abuse in Massachusetts government, whether it’s the DTA, MassSaves, the State Police or any other agency.
Speaking of MassDOT, remember the old joke:
Q: What’s yellow and sleeps four?
A: A MassDOT truck.
Whenever you see a headline that says “Experts Say” the next words will be some variation on how terrible Trump is.
Whenever there’s a good headline about the economy under Trump, the sub head will always mention “several red flags” and how the numbers “mask underlying weakness.”
Whenever the Democrat operatives with press passes talk about saving “independent journalism,” what they really mean is preserving a diet of 100 percent Democrat agitprop.
The Fourth Estate has become a fifth column.
Anything Democrats don’t control, they want to “reform” — like the Supreme Court, which they would pack with more low-IQ Ketanji Brown Jackson types to make it as corrupt as every other failed institution they’ve ruined.
When was the last time a mass murderer didn’t leave behind a “manifesto?”
With his 80th birthday looming ahead July 11, Sen. Ed Markey’s got that Dementia Joe Biden vibe going big time.
Especially when he’s shuffling around unsteadily in his old-man sneakers.
Joe Kennedy III has still got to be kicking himself: “I can’t believe I lost to that guy!”
You know you’re being lectured by a Democrat when they use words like “incentivizing,” “prioritizing,” “othering” or “the permission structure.”
Increasingly in Massachusetts, everything that is not mandatory is prohibited.
What do you call a week when Stephen Colbert goes off the air, Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes, CBS Radio News goes out of business and the CBS Evening News records its lowest ratings ever?
A good start.
Separated at birth: Rachel Dolezal, who thinks she’s entitled to be a black woman, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who thinks she’s entitled to represent a black Congressional district in Florida.
How is it possible that National Panhandler Radio is laying off hundreds of Democrat fluffers when they told us for decades that they only get 1 percent of their funding from the federal government?
The more a Democrat talks about being “working class,” the more you know they’re not.
Graham Platner, who went to the elitist Hotchkiss School where every Social Register blueblood is required to have two last names — this means you.
And whenever Democrats prattle on about “working families,” remember that they’re neither — working nor families.
What Neil Farage said about the huge shifts in the two-party system in the UK is just as true here — the old political distinctions between labor and capital have been replaced by a divide that is “increasingly about whether you go to work or not.”
Or, as Dapper O’Neil used to say, “We work, why don’t they?”
Back in the Seventies, Red Sox lefty Bill Lee used to say that when the team plane landed, it was “26 guys, 26 cabs.”
Now it’s more like “26 guys, 26 translators.”
Boston politics 2026: Sharon Durkan, a plus-sized blow-in from Georgia vs. Tania Fernandes Anderson, a jailbird Muslim illegal alien from Africa raised on welfare who wasn’t even a US citizen until 2019.
And they wonder why the city has come apart at the seams.
Whatever happened to fudge ripple ice cream?
How ironic that body cams have turned out to be the cops’ best defense against the Defund the Police crowd — be careful what you wish for, poverty pimps!
Every week, as yet another vaguely familiar Boston media figure you haven’t thought of in years abruptly “retires,” recall the words of legendary baseball executive Branch Rickey during contract negotiations with his top home-run hitter Ralph Kiner:
“We finished last with you, we can finish last without you.”
